Stories of Scottsville at Solid Ground Coffee Shop helps Allen County reminisce & look forward
SCOTTSVILLE, Ky. – “Family… community.”
If you walk into any coffee shop in Allen County like Solid Ground, you’re bound to hear the community catching up on how everyone is doing. Tuesday was no different, as community members gathered to share stories of their home. However, it did feature someone from out of town learning about the community.
“This was a kickoff of a Civic Pride campaign, and the Civic Pride campaign is a year long effort to try to reestablish those healthy relationships with individuals in the town that they live in. We’re all in a relationship with our community, but we’re either unaware of it, it’s unhealthy and it upsets us, or it can be this really beautiful thing where the community gives and all the individuals contribute and the community gives them something back, which is this reward and this feeling of being a part of something bigger and that trust that comes with people taking care of one another,” Jeff Siegler, the founder of Revitalize or Die, a civic pride company from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania says.
Whether it’s local residents or those who came from out of town, everyone shares one common idea.
“Community feels good, getting involved, giving a little bit of your time to the greater good. I hope that this is a reminder that it doesn’t take much to experience that joy and that connected-ness of coming out and being with one another and just having a face to face conversation with these people that matter,” Siegler says.
